Senior Lecturer in Finance

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Business School
Location:  Ormskirk
Salary:  £44,263 to £57,696 per annum
Permanent
Post Type:  Full Time
Closing Date:  Sunday 21 January 2024
Reference:  EHT0197-0124

We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone

 About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Lecturer in Finance to join The Faculty of Arts & Sciences. 

You will contribute to teaching on our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in modules relating to finance and business. You will also contribute to our research culture; you will be allocated a research allowance of approximately 40 percent of your time.

As part of your role, you will be expected to contribute to the development and enhancement of relationships with external parties to support the student experience at Edge Hill. The School is ideally located between several large cities with thriving business communities. Working alongside our associated award-winning Productivity and Innovation Centre (PIC) unit, the School benefits from excellent relationships with industry in the UK and abroad. 

With almost 40 full-time academic staff, 4 graduate teaching assistants, a small team of associate tutors, specialised support from practitioners and around 1000 full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students, we strive to provide a supportive professional working environment that values and promotes excellence in teaching and research performance.

The Business School offers a number of undergraduate single and joint honours degrees in Business Management, Marketing, Accounting, and Accounting and Finance. We also offer a suite of postgraduate research and taught degrees.

Our students have consistently rated their teaching and learning experience very highly. In Accounting, Edge Hill was ranked number 1 in the University in the 2023 NSS across every category.

Our submission to the last Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) was rated very highly with over 55% of our outputs rated as either world leading or internationally excellent, with the Impact of our work being rated at 3*.

About You

As Senior Lecturer in Finance, you will be an enthusiastic and friendly professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills coupled with a commitment to providing an excellent student experience. Experience of teaching is essential. 

You will enrich our student’s experience through your expertise and subject knowledge as evidenced through your qualifications and background in finance and related disciplines. You will contribute to teaching on our undergraduate finance programmes and you will also play a key role in delivering finance-related modules on our postgraduate programmes. 

You will be an active researcher, with ambitious plans for publication and grant capture in your area of expertise.

You will also be expected to contribute to the knowledge-exchange activities of the School and wider University.

A PhD, or close to completed PhD (or equivalent demonstration of research capability) in finance or a closely related field, is essential.

In return, you will join a forward thinking and dynamic team that pushes the boundaries of curriculum development and research. 

Rewards & Benefits

We want you to feel happy when you come to work and proud when you go home.

 From the moment you join us you have the opportunity to enhance your skills. We offer various routes for progression, a range of specialist development sessions and academic development opportunities along with an award winning and comprehensive staff health & wellbeing   programme (HR Excellence Awards 2017). This means you will receive a full academic induction, be enrolled if appropriate on our PGCTHE, benefit from the Edge Hill University CPD scheme (UKPSF) and our annual University Learning and Teaching day all to support your   professional development. 

 This is just a taste of what we are able to offer you at Edge Hill University.

 About Us

 “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education. 

 We are recognised for our outstanding achievements in student satisfaction, staff engagement, graduate employment and innovation as well as our strengthening research profile, investment and growth. The Times Higher ‘University of the Year’ award also celebrated our distinct role in “transforming lives” – reflecting a distinctive philosophy of creating opportunity from excellence.

 You’ll be working for a multi award-winning institution that has been named Modern University of the Year in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022 and shortlisted for the overall UK University of the Year award. Edge Hill has also recently been awarded University of the Year in the Educate North Awards (2021) in recognition of our continued commitment to deliver an exceptional student experience and the exceptional progress we have made to deliver investment and innovation over the past 12 months, while placing students at the heart of everything we do.

 The University has been judged Best UK Employer (European Business Awards 2016) and highly commended in Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2017 for Workplace of the Year.

 Based on an award-winning campus in West Lancashire, Edge Hill University offers a stimulating and empowering environment for ambitious and high performing professionals.

For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Professor Jay Cullen, Head of Business and Law at [email protected]

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.